Sunday, April 23, 2017

Alien Children Finished

These are my finished children. Each row is 48" and I can't get it all into one photo...at least indoors but it's been raining like mad for the past several days. I'm happier with them now that they are finished but they do still remind me of aliens! I'm still undecided about the faces but I haven't been able to get pleasant expressions in the past, so I'm OK with leaving them as is.

For the first row of this Quilt Along, I followed the directions exactly. The trees and houses went together rapisily and came out well. For the children's row, I made some changes. Since I'm using a solid background, not scrappy, I decided to put the children together and eliminate all the seams. Once I'd finished the school and put it together with the kids, I realized that my scale was off! I traced the pattern from my computer screen and didn't realize that it was larger than intended. I'm just telling myself that the kids are marching off to the school in the distance!

I'm still working on the second row....pinwheels and flowers and am looking forward to seeing what next month's row will be!